This Deliverable will report on the activities in Task 7.2.1. for evaluating the existing medical guidelines for assessing fitness to drive within the framework of Council Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licences. An overview of the current European regulations with respect to the assessment of fitness to drive and on driving performance in case patients use psychotropic medicines will be presented. A questionnaire survey among driving licensing authorities and experts was conducted in order to obtain better insights into the current situation in Europe concerning guidelines for physicians on prescribing medicines with impact on driving performance and on assessing fitness to drive. In addition existing guidelines for pharmacists on advising patients while dispensing those medicines were considered. Furthermore, it was decided to collect additional information on court cases in order to see if there could be a sufficient number of cases for evaluation of guidelines on the basis of legal outcomes in the event of accidents occurring after a positive decision from a physician’s side. (Author/publisher) This document is available at https://www.bast.de/Druid/EN/Home/home_node.html
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